Winter is coming!

Europe has been covered with a think white cover since Tuesday, and my Polish compatriots are bracing themselves for a -20 Celsius night. Still, one always feels for the English of course - they traditionally appear so cutely amazed and terrified at the slightest sight of white-coloured precipitation. So - my warmest thoughts go to all my friends stuck somewhere in cold buses (London Underground was on strike this week), and in cold houses. I remember my cottage in the Cotswolds - so gorgeous but so impossibly, bone-breakingly cold! 

We also have our own cold streak here, and today Atlanta even saw some small tornadoes! Top that, Brits! It still did not deter me from starting my Christmas shopping. Malls are a great invention - probably an American invention. If not, Americans took them on and perfected the idea. Spent half an hour being pampered by a half-Italian, half-Russian make-up salesman. Of course I bought some - mea culpa.